As these inappropriately dubbed "fat cats" tuck into modest portions of healthy food, sipping water or smoothies, it becomes clear that their wealth has not inspired excess - or at least not excessive eating.
If your weight is excessive then the implication is that the excess is fat and, of course, people's body composition varies enormously and BMI doesn't know anything about that so it's a very imprecise index when applied to individuals.
Over the 138-year timeframe Mr Taylor finds crisis preceded by the development of excess credit, as in Ireland and Spain today, are more common than crisis underpinned by excessive government borrowing, like in Greece.